Gnosticism like mysticism pursues the inner way; its authority is not external
but internal-a living personal experience-but without denying the outer world.
Under the guise of Basilides, a second-century AD Gnostic sage, Jung wrote in
1916 the Seven Sermons to the Dead after he had received intense psychic
experiences.The author has made his own translation of the sermons and sets
forth a lengthy explanation and far-ranging commentary on Jung, Gnosticism, and
the present condition of the Western individual. —-Choice Review